Alan Dershowitz files multimillion-dollar defamation lawsuit against CNN

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Alan Dershowitz filed a $300 million lawsuit against CNN because he said the network tried to destroy his credibility during President Trump’s impeachment.

Dershowitz, a former Harvard law professor who represented Trump during the impeachment, filed a lawsuit on Tuesday, claiming that CNN purposefully aired a fragment of one of his arguments to attempt to paint him as delusional. The clip in question is related to Dershowitz’s argument that Trump could do anything he believed was in the “public interest.”

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